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Sep
12th Oxford Energy Day
Conference | Tuesday 17 Sep 2024 | Martin Wood Lecture Theatre
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28
Apr
The limits of energy sufficiency: A review of the evidence for rebound effects and negative spillovers from behavioural change
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 28 Apr 2020 | Online | Slides available
‘Energy sufficiency’ involves reducing consumption of energy services in order to minimise the associated environmental impacts. This may either be through individual actions, such as reducing car travel, or through reducing working time, income and aggregate consumption (‘downshifting’). However, the environmental benefits of both strategies may be less than anticipated. First, people may save money that they can spend on [...]
Seminar | Week 1
11
Mar
Invitation: Stakeholder Sustainability Networking Event
Wednesday 11 Mar 2020 | Oxford Martin School
Hosted by the OxPOCH project, Oxford Networks for the Environment (ONE) & the OMS
The OxPOCH research project, led by Prof. E.J. Milner-Gulland (Zoology), in conjunction with the ONE and the OMS, is hosting a networking event which will contribute to the consultation on the Environmental Sustainability Strategy that the University is in the process of drafting. This new Strategy aims [...]
27
Feb
Understanding and promoting social transformations to address climate change
Thursday 27 Feb 2020 | Gottmann Room, OUCE
While there is now strong international momentum on action to tackle climate change, in order to avoid further widespread impacts there is a need for more fundamental transformations across all parts of society. Progress in reducing the UK’s emissions has largely been restricted to improving energy efficiency and decarbonising energy production, while there has been much less traction in other [...]
18
Feb
Climbing the energy services ladder: transitions in India’s urbanenergy consumption amid a changing global climate
Seminar | Week 1 | Tuesday 18 Feb 2020
Demand-side measures, such as urban energy management in households, are central to addressing global climate change. Examining and shaping energy consumption patterns is particularly salient in developing countries, where the bulk of urban growth is projected to occur and which are often the most vulnerable to climate impacts. India is keyto these discussions as it undergoes the largest urban transition [...]
Seminar | Week 1
28
Jan
An Empirical Analysis of the Fiscal Incidence of Renewable EnergySupport in the European Union
Tuesday 28 Jan 2020 | Slides available
In liberalised energy markets, electricity from Renewable Energy (RE) using Solar PV and Wind Turbines requires financial support because the expected number of generation hours is insufficient to induce private investment. Such support has a direct cost from the additional expenditure over what would have been incurred had fossil fuel generation been used and indirect costs arising from the random [...]
23
Jan
Energy Policy in the Age of Climate Change: Recent experience andchallenges ahead
Thursday 23 Jan 2020
This lecture will reflect on changes in UK energy policy since the early 2000s, when the first long term emissions target was proposed in the 2003 Energy White Paper. The UK is already well on the way to meeting that target, which required a 60% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2050. In the meantime, many changes have affected the energy sector: climate science has highlighted [...]
21
Jan
Net Zero: The role of domestic building energy efficiency
Tuesday 21 Jan 2020 | Slides available
The presentation will review how and why energy demand has changed in the UK domestic stock over the last 50 years. What can we do to better predict energy use in buildings in the future? Based on this review, what rolemay domestic energy efficiency play in helping the UK achieve net zero in the next three decades?
Speaker
Tadj Oreszczyn FCIBSE MInstE, [...]
19
Nov
A win-win for everyone? Demand-side flexibility and people’s activities
Tuesday 19 Nov 2019 | Slides available
Review by Jose-Luis Ramirez Mendiola
Flexibility of electricity demand is often seen as critical for balancing the grid when consumption is high and when there are drops in supply from renewables. The benefits of demand side flexibility include improving balancing with renewables; reducing the costs of electricity generation; and making the most of smart systems and battery storage. But is flexibility [...]
14
Nov
Tipping Positive Change to Avoid Climate Tipping Points
Thursday 14 Nov 2019 | Oxford Martin School
Climate change has advanced to the point where we are already triggering damaging environmental tipping points – how can we stop this?
Tipping points exist in social, ecological and climate systems and those systems are increasingly causally intertwined in the Anthropocene. Climate change and biosphere degradation haveadvanced to the point where we are already triggering damaging environmental tipping points, and to [...]
13
Nov
Oxford Energy Society: Changing Energy Systems: Life Cycle Approaches to Optimisation
Wednesday 13 Nov 2019
Renewable technologies are inherently seen as “good”. Nevertheless, they are not without impact. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a tool used to help us outline where impacts occur and how we can minimise these. It is often applied to individual technologies, but can be applied to whole systems and also be used to help anticipate impacts from novel technologies and [...]